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Mercer said Healthy Carolinians advertises the boxes and educates residents about what should be <br />dropped in the box and what should not. <br />She said the first drop box was installed at the Chapel Hill Police Department in the summer of 2013 <br />and was followed that same summer by drop boxes in the police departments of Carrboro and <br />Hillsborough. <br />Mercer said the boxes are monitored to keep them secure. <br />“We have accomplished our goal,” she said. “We have all of our law enforcement engaged into the <br />process.” <br />Mecimore said Chapel Hill Police Department employees clean out the drop box weekly and dispose <br />of the medication to leave room for drop-offs. <br />“Disposing these properly is important — not only to people, but to the environment,” Mecimore said. <br />“We have an obligation to try to help with that process.” <br />